Aug 04 2020 28 mins
Show Notes
This episode finally delves into who Jonathan and Angela are, a bit of our backgrounds and how we both took very different paths to get to where we are. We give shout outs to our team, mentors, friends, and family.
We talk in this episode about non-medical fabric masks and we wanted to give a shout out to Sew the Curve Kamloops. We also mention a local company Desert Lily Clothing that made the custom masks for Two Story Robot.
Find Us Online
Angela Hapke - @angelahapke - https://www.clinnect.ca
Jonathan Bowers - @thejonotron - https://www.twostoryrobot.com
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Bowers and Angela Hapke
Music by Andrew Codeman (CC BY 3.0)
Transcript
[00:00:00] Angela: Just buy a mic.
[00:00:00] Jonathan: You're just going to buy a mic anyways.
[00:00:03] Angela: Why not?
[00:00:03] Jonathan: Okay. Well tell me if you do, and then I will also buy the mic and
[00:00:06] Angela: Well, okay. I don't want to make you buy a mic,
[00:00:09] Jonathan: Well, no, no, no. Cause I, I will, um, I kind of want to
[00:00:12] Angela: Let's just buy my mics then
[00:00:15]Intro
[00:00:15] Jonathan: Hi, I'm Jonathan Bowers. I'm the CEO of Two Story Robot and we're helping Angela build a digital health startup. And we had a bunch of masks, custom made masks that I delivered to my team yesterday. Yeah, it was super fun.
[00:00:34] Angela: do people like them.
[00:00:35] Jonathan: Yes. Uh, Lindsey posted a picture of her wearing our branded mask, the branded hat, some chainmail, and a sword to vanquish COVID
[00:00:50]Angela: that's awesome.
[00:00:52] Jonathan: I'm excited We made a, I think there's like 35 or so. Um, so we're distributing everyone on the team gets one, it's the Olsen
[00:01:01] Angela: The Olsen mask
[00:01:02] Jonathan: got. Uh, I had her use some scrap fabric, whatever scraps she had for
[00:01:07] Angela: well, that one has hello,
[00:01:08] Jonathan: This one is Hello Kitty.
[00:01:10] Angela: That's cute. That's perfect.
[00:01:12] That's super fun.
[00:01:13] Jonathan: Yeah, it's super fun. We're going to sell them, sell the extras, mark them up a whole bunch and give a, give the profits to charity.
[00:01:21] Angela: That's great. Awesome.
[00:01:23] Hi, my name is Angela Hapke and I am the CEO of Central Referral Solutions. The company that has launched Clinnect the digital health product, um, that Two Story Robot is helping us with. And speaking of masks I made masks for. Sew the Curve Kamloops, which is a grassroots organization that made over 10,000 masks for, our geographic area around Kamloops and, um, not just mass, they made scrub caps and, um, bags.
[00:01:58] So like healthcare workers could put their, their scrubs in their clothes, in a bag that had like a drawstring. So they could just dump them in the washer when they got home and things like that. But it was really, really cool in the beginning of COVID to be part of something that was, um, that was really.
[00:02:14] Making an impact like that. So I think I ended up making about, I want to say about 40 scrub caps and about 25 masks.
[00:02:26] Jonathan: Yeah, the, uh, we hired a business out of the Sew the Curve to make our masks, somebody new who is just starting a business for the first time. Um, and she, you know, she wanted a Desert Lily Clothing.
[00:02:39]She is going to make children's clothing, but then became really active on the Sew The Curve. And so we reached out to her and she was super excited about it. So yeah. Yeah, that's fine.
[00:02:49] Angela: Hence the Hello Kitty uh, scrap fabric
[00:02:51]yup. There we go. Somebody we can talk about today.
[00:02:57]Getting to Know Each Other
[00:02:57] Jonathan: Well, I wanted to, I wanted to get to know Angela. I already know Angela.
[00:03:03] Angela: But do we like, so this is an interesting part is so we've known each other for a few years now. and I feel like, um, we know each other from like the last five years of our career, but I don't actually know the Jonathan pre.
[00:03:20] Pre age 30 or something like that.
[00:03:23] Jonathan: How old do you think I am?
[00:03:24] Angela: I know exactly how old you are, because you're the same age as me.
[00:03:27] Jonathan: Oh, am I?
[00:03:28] Angela: Well, you're a few months older
[00:03:30] Jonathan: Oh, okay. When's your birthday? What? In December. Oh, so you haven't,
[00:03:35] Angela: I
[00:03:36] Jonathan: you haven't
[00:03:36] Angela: the big four. Oh
[00:03:38] yeah, but I mean, you turned 40 during COVID.
[00:03:43] Jonathan: Yeah, it was, uh, not the birthday I wanted, but it was still, it was still enjoyable. It was still fun.
[00:03:49]Angela: Brad and I will be married 10 years. This December, I will turn 40 this December Yeah, we had plans to go to France. I really lovely trip. And none of that's going to happen now. So no I'm adjusting expectations as is everyone right now with life.
[00:04:11] So, yeah. So, so how do we segue into the, who are we?
[00:04:17] Jonathan: talk about it. Who, who, who is Angela?
[00:04:20] Angela: how far do you want me to go back?
[00:04:21]Jonathan: well, I was thinking about this. We met, um, when I was working at FreshGrade. Um, I was, one of the first employees and I can't remember how big the team was at that point, but you, knew one of the founders, Steve, Steve Wandler, or you knew Steve from some other thing and you were doing some kind of project through your MBA.
[00:04:44] And I remember that, but I don't remember much about it. I just remember that. That's what you were there doing. And then, I dunno, you went and finished the MBA. I went and did some stuff. And then, and then you were back in Kamloops and you came, I think you came through, um, the innovation center. And I think that's how we got reintroduced.
[00:05:04] Angela: I think that was I actually, I think it was Steve again. So Clinnect is, is a long journey. Forget about overnight successes. Long journey has been about three years in the making. We started off as a government project. Um, and we thought we kind of landed on something really interesting.
[00:05:24] And I wondered if we couldn't make it some kind...